From 2016, explaining tRump talk:
Donald Trump's strange speaking style, as explained by linguists - Vox
https://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12423688/donald-trump-speech-style-explained-by-linguists"He makes vague implications with a raised eyebrow or a shrug, allowing his audience to reach their own conclusions.
….. Trump's unorganized sentences and short snippets might suggest something about how his mind works. "His speech suggests a man with scattered thoughts, a short span of attention, and a lack of intellectual discipline and analytical skills," Pullum says.
….. You get no such organized thoughts from Trump. It's bursts of noun phrases, self-interruptions, sudden departures from the theme, flashes of memory, odd side remarks. ... It's the disordered language of a person with a concentration problem."
…. Many of Trump's most famous catchphrases are actually versions of time-tested speech mechanisms that salesmen use. They're powerful because they help shape our unconscious.
Take, for example, Trump's frequent use of "Many people are saying..." or "Believe me" often right after saying something that is baseless or untrue. This tends to sound more trustworthy to listeners than just outright stating the baseless claim, since Trump implies that he has direct experience with what he's talking about. At a base level, Lakoff argues, people are more inclined to believe something that seems to have been shared.
…… "Leadership is hard; it needs discipline, concentration, and an ability to ignore what's irrelevant or needless or personal or silly," Pullum says. "There is no sign of it from Trump. This man talks honestly enough that you can see what he's like: He's an undisciplined narcissist who craves power but doesn't have the intellectual capacity to exercise it wisely."
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